Vancouver, WA · Remote
Platform engineering leader and Rails engineer. I build the orchestrators, harnesses, and guardrails that let coding agents ship real work safely, and I help teams get good at using them.
Work with me
Most teams have AI tools. Fewer have agents doing dependable work in their real codebase and pipeline. I've built that inside a large Rails company, and I can help your team do the same.
Hands-on work with your engineers in your own codebase: agent workflows, shared skills, and review habits that make agents a dependable part of how you ship.
Design and build the layer that runs agents for you: scheduling, triggers, run logs, guardrails, and checks a model cannot talk its way out of.
Put agents on the work that eats your team's time: fully managed deployments, Ruby and Rails upgrades, and multi-agent code review.
At ClickFunnels, a deploy took about three hours and nine people in January 2024. A merge to master now starts it, and agents on Clicky, the internal agent orchestration platform created by Ben Wood, have the release on production in about 10 minutes.
Shipped Rails 7.0 to 7.2 on the primary monolith through a dual-boot migration, then Ruby 3.3 with YJIT. Packaged the upgrade method as agent skills so agents and other teams can run it.
Built a multi-model adversarial PR review panel that became the default review for pull requests there.
Built Clicky's scheduling subsystem (cron rules with time zones, durable run logs that dedupe double dispatch, exposed through REST, web, MCP, and CLI) and its incoming-webhooks framework.
Moved CI to RWX: 80+ parallel tasks per pipeline, content-based caching, and retries of only the failed tests. Deploy cycle time dropped 14x and CI infrastructure costs fell by $60K+ a year.
At Hint, led Rails 3.2 to 7.1 for PureCharity, Rails 4.1 to 6.1 for Angi, and the migration of 40 Sinatra apps to Rails.
My open-source harness for coding agents: guardrail hooks and a discipline playbook, built so a review finding becomes a check instead of a reminder. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, and Kimi.
An intelligent test runner that sits on the CI you already have, which I build with Ben Wood. Shorter test feedback so people and agents get back to writing code.
Family man, weekend farmer, outdoorsman. I have led people for most of my working life, and the work I care about most is making it possible for other people to ship.
I led platform engineering at ClickFunnels as VP of Platform Engineering, covering platform, SRE, DevOps, security, systems, QA, and IT while staying hands-on in the primary Rails monolith. Before that I was project manager, then COO, then partner at Hint, a Rails consultancy. Before that, eighteen years leading a large volunteer technology team at New Heights Church, where I built the Rails apps the organization ran on.
Based in Vancouver, WA, working remotely. Family, a little farm, and the work.